<p><i>The Real Politics of the Horn of Africa</i> delves into the business of politics in the turbulent, war-torn countries of north-east Africa. It is a contemporary history of how politicians, generals and insurgents bargain over money and power, and use of war to achieve their goals.</p><p>Drawing on a thirty-year career in Sudan, Ethiopia, Eritrea and Somalia, including experience as a participant in high-level peace talks, Alex de Waal provides a unique and compelling account of how these countries¿ leaders run their governments, conduct their business, fight their wars and, occasionally, make peace. De Waal shows how leaders operate on a business model, securing funds for their ¿political budgets¿ which they use to rent the provisional allegiances of army officers, militia commanders, tribal chiefs and party officials at the going rate. This political marketplace is eroding the institutions of government and reversing statebuilding¿nd it is fuelled in large part by oil exports, a
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<p><i>New Pandemics, Old Politics</i> explores how the modern world adopted a martial script to deal with epidemic disease threats, and how this has failed ¿ repeatedly. Europe first declared ¿war¿ on cholera in the 19th century....
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Originally part of a set, now sold separately, Volume 4 of Sub-Saharan Africa Architectural Guide is dedicated to Eastern Africa, from the Sahel to the Horn of Africa and includes Chad, Sudan, South Sudan, Eritrea, Djibouti, Ethiopia, and Somalia.
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<p>The world almost conquered famine. Until the 1980s, this scourge killed ten million people every decade, but by early 2000s mass starvation had all but disappeared. Today, famines are resurgent, driven by war, blockade, hostility to humanitarian...
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<p>The first edition of Frans de Waal''s <i>Chimpanzee Politics</i> was acclaimed not only by primatologists for its scientific achievement but also by politicians, business leaders, and social psychologists for its remarkable...
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